Best of Late Night: Stephen Colbert Finds a Place to File CBS’s Surprise Statement

February 18, 2026, 3:20 a.m. Eastern time

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Stephen Colbert Finds a Place to File CBS’s Surprise Statement

“I don’t even know what to do with this,” Colbert said about the network’s news release on a scrapped interview with a Democratic politician, before putting the paper in a dog waste bag.

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